x

Like our Facebook Page

   
Early Times Newspaper Jammu, Leading Newspaper Jammu
 
Breaking News :   Importance of Co-curricular Activities in Colleges | Jammu & Kashmir’s MSME Sector: A Path to Sustainable Growth | Why is there no space for childhood in newspapers? | DPAP Turns Irrelevant | Doda Police traced out missing person, reunites with his families | One day district level workshop on Panchayat Advancement Index held | Committee on Privileges holds meeting in Srinagar | DLSA organizes One- Day capacity building programme | DC Doda chairs DLIC meeting to approve 66 cases under Mission YUVA | J&K people know Pak is their biggest enemy: LG Sinha | LG reviews progress of Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan | Undeterred by threats, devotees flock to Amarnath, one lakh complete journey in 6-days | Swift Police action helps recover elderly Amarnath pilgrim’s bag | E-comm platforms, online payments services being abused for terror financing: FATF | Anti-Constitutional: Farooq Abdullah on revision of electoral rolls in Bihar | CRPF Chief reviews Amarnath Yatra security | 2 held for unauthorised excavation at graveyard | Schools reopen after summer break | 6 drug peddlers held with heroin | Vishwa Yog Sansthan organizes plantation drive in Jammu | Dy CM conducts surprise inspection of CE R&B, PMGSY offices | Jammu police restores Rs 62 lakhs to Hyderabad complainant in landmark case | Devyani Rana assures public on 2nd Toll Plaza in Nagrota Constituency | SSP Kishtwar holds crime review meeting of sub-division Kishtwar | Arvind reviews healthcare upgrade plans at SDH Sarwal | Rana felicitates officials of Wildlife Department at Dachigam | Electoral reforms can't be called Unconstitutional: Kavinder | Satish Sharma launches Kashmir Super League 2025 | Employee under-trial, in a criminal case, is not entitled to salary: HC | Chief Judicial Magistrate sentence six month imprisonment in eve teasing case | Indian Navy signs contract with BEL for implementation of NMDA Project | Puneet Mahajan, meets renowned social activist Sandhya Dhar | MLA Dr. Rameshwar initiates first-ever Hari Prayag Khumb Mela at Bani | DLIC Kupwara approves 72 cases under Mission YUVA scheme | Drug peddler arrested by Udhampur Police | DC Baramulla reviews progress under Capex Budget 2025-26 | JKEDI concludes MDPs in 4 districts, trains 81 entrepreneurs under RAMP | Awareness camp under BBBP held at Hermain Shopian | FVSc and AH, SKUAST-J celebrates World Zoonoses Day- 2025 | Special Lok-Adalat for MACT & Matrimonial Cases on July 26 in Kulgam | DLIC approves 59 cases under Mission Yuva scheme in Ganderbal | The Chatter Box to host Insane Comic on 13th July in Jammu | JU's Bhaderwah Campus unites Global Experts in Ladakh to Address Climate Crisis in the Indian Himalayas | Deepti Sharma rises to 2nd in ICC WT20I rankings, in touching distance of top spot | Govt GLDM Degree College, Hiranagar Featured in "INTACH VIRASAT" Magazine | Central University of Jammu signs MoU with Government Medical College | Desh Bhagat Global School Shines at The Educator Pinnacle Awards-2025 | MCM's Hindi Department fosters literary excellence and cultural pride | Tennis players regularly handle pressure that's comparable to India's WC games vs Pak: Kohli | Back Issues  
 
news details
Number of cancer patients swell in JK but few gets financial assistance of Govt schemes
Among miniscule number of beneficiaries, majority are from valley
12/8/2019 11:57:25 PM
Early Times Report

Jammu, Dec 8: Though the number of cancer patients in Jammu and Kashmir has recorded an increase but very few patients have managed to get the financial assistance provided to the cancer patients under a Central Sponsored Scheme (CSS).
More surprisingly out of the miniscule number of beneficiaries, majority are from Kashmir valley while most of the Jammu patients have not been able to get that benefit too, raising a serious question over the conduct of the authorities.
According to the details available with the Early Times, the estimated incidence of cancer cases in Jammu and Kashmir was reported as 15652 in 2016, 16480 in 2017 and 17351 in the year 2018.
Under an umbrella scheme Rashtriya Arogya Nidhi (RAN), the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare provides financial assistance upto Rs. 15 Lakhs for treatment of Below Poverty Line (BPL) patients suffering from identified life threatening diseases including cancer/ rare diseases and taking treatment in Government hospitals. Out of the total reported cases of cancer patients in JK, a good number would be BPL patients but very few have got financial assistance. As per the date provided by the Health department, a total of 62 patients had got benefit of RAN in J&K in the year 2018-19 out of which 61 patients are from Kashmir while only one patient is from Jammu. All the 61 patients from Kashmir valley who had got benefit of RAN scheme were admitted in SKIMS while one patient from Jammu had got benefit in Government Medical College Jammu.
Moreover five patients from Jammu had got benefit of scheme in the year 2017-18 at GMC Jammu, while in the same time, 50 patients from SKIMS had got benefit of the scheme. Similarly in year 2016-17, 25 patients from Kashmir valley had got benefit at SKIMS while in Jammu not even a single patient had got the benefit. Moreover similar was the condition in GSMHS of Jammu, where five patients had got benefit in two years 2016-17 and 2017-18.
"The schemes of Union government are for both the regions but from the data it infers that the authorities in Kashmir valley are more friendly to the patients and help them to tap the benefits of government schemes while in Jammu the authorities as well as patients have been failed to get benefit of the government schemes, which is evident from the data of RAN", an official said, adding that it was the responsibility of the authorities to provide benefits to the poor masses.
  Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network  
  Comment on this Story  
 
 
 
Early Times Android App
STOCK UPDATE
  
BSE Sensex
NSE Nifty
 
CRICKET UPDATE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
Home About Us Top Stories Local News National News Sports News Opinion Editorial ET Cetra Advertise with Us ET E-paper
 
 
J&K RELATED WEBSITES
J&K Govt. Official website
Jammu Kashmir Tourism
JKTDC
Mata Vaishnodevi Shrine Board
Shri Amarnath Ji Shrine Board
Shri Shiv Khori Shrine Board
UTILITY
Train Enquiry
IRCTC
Matavaishnodevi
BSNL
Jammu Kashmir Bank
State Bank of India
PUBLIC INTEREST
Passport Department
Income Tax Department
JK CAMPA
JK GAD
IT Education
Web Site Design Services
EDUCATION
Jammu University
Jammu University Results
JKBOSE
Kashmir University
IGNOU Jammu Center
SMVDU